Ultimate gangsters collection : classics

Resource Information

The work Ultimate gangsters collection : classics represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Ultimate gangsters collection : classics

Title remainder

classics

Contributor

• First National Pictures, Inc
• Turner Entertainment Co
• Vitaphone Corp
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Blondell, Joan
• Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957
• trueBurnett, W. R., (William Riley), 1899-1982
• Cagney, James, 1899-1986
• Daves, Delmer, 1904-1977
• trueDavis, Bette, 1908-1989
• Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1909-2000
• Faragoh, Francis Edwards
• Farrell, Glenda, 1904-1971
• Harlow, Jean, 1911-1937
• Howard, Leslie, 1893-1943
• Kenyon, C. Fred, (Charles Frederick), 1879-1926
• LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987
• Mayo, Archie L., 1891-1968
• Mayo, Virginia, 1920-2005
• O'Brien, Edmond, 1915-1985
• trueRobinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
• Sherwood, Robert E., (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955
• Thew, Harvey
• Walsh, Raoul, 1887-1980
• Wellman, William A., 1896-1975

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Hostages -- Drama
• Murder
• Murder -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Extortion
• Extortion -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Fugitives from justice
• Fugitives from justice -- Drama
• Gangster films
• Gangster films
• Gangsters
• Gangsters -- Drama
• Hostages

Genre

• Film adaptations
• trueDrama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Gangster films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

• Little Caesar: Edward G. Robinson embodies the classic screen gangster in this tale of the rise and fall of Enrico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, a hardened criminal with few attachments, fewer friends and no sense of diplomacy
• The public enemy: James Cagney gives a powerful breakthrough performance as streetwise tough guy Tom Powers in this gritty, hard hitting representation of the criminal underworld during the Prohibition era
• The petrified forest: A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart in a star-making performance) sweats out a manhunt, holding a disillusioned writer, a young artist and others hostage
• White heat: As a psychotic thug devoted to his hard-boiled ma, James Cagney -- older but just as frightening as ever -- is at his most electrifying playing Cody Jarrett, a human time bomb struggling to reach the top of the world

Member of

• Public enemy (Motion picture)
• White heat (Motion picture)
• Little Caesar (Motion picture)
• Petrified forest (Motion picture)

Cataloging source

ZAM

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Little Caesar: Director of photography, Tony Gaudio ; editor, Ray Curtiss ; music, Erno Rapee
• The public enemy: Director of photography, Dev Jennings ; editor, EDW. M. McDermott ; music, David Mendoza
• Petrified forest: Director of photography, Sol Polito ; editor, Owen Marks ; music, Leo F. Forbstein
• White heat: Director of photography, Sid Hickox ; music, Max Steiner ; editor, Owen Marks

Dewey number

[E]

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Language note

In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.U48 2013

PerformerNote

• Little Caesar: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Glenda Farrell, William Collier, Sidney Blackmer
• The public enemy: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
• Petrified forest: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Hal B. Wallis
• White heat: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, Fred Clark

Runtime

463

Target audience

general

Technique

live action